Jeffrey Eugenides Quotes
Some Pulitzer winners - novelists - have confided to me that getting the prize screwed them up. It messed with their heads. That hasn't been my experience.Jeffrey Eugenides
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I really enjoy getting to go and play on other people's shows for an episode or two. It adds such variety to my repertoire.
Natalie Zea -
I set myself one task, which was to get Labour on to the front foot, back in the game, making the weather on the economy, and that's going to take me a year.
Ed Balls -
I spent half my life being hurt. The leftovers of hurt are an automatic gesture, like a dog that salivates.
Oleg Cassini -
You need the audience to go on the ride with you. You can't just isolate them.
Adam McKay -
If a film is a huge hit, you do think properly before choosing your next projects.
Yami Gautam -
I care less about selling tickets and getting Twitter followers than I do about making as many people laugh as I can. I'd rather make people laugh than make them know who T.J. Miller is.
T. J. Miller
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I'm most honest about writing when I'm talking to family or friends, not to newspapers.
Zadie Smith -
I was doing things that weren't good for me. So I checked into the Churchill Priory clinic. It was the best thing I've done for ages.
Kate Moss -
If you know you are giving your best effort, you'll never have any reason for regrets.
Naveen Jain -
Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph.
Haile Selassie -
Grown-up clothes are more appealing because customers need to be able to project themselves into them.
Natalie Massenet -
A community is democratic only when the humblest and weakest person can enjoy the highest civil, economic, and social rights that the biggest and most powerful possess.
A. Philip Randolph
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Fairy tales opened up a door into my imagination - they don't conform to the reality that's around you as a child. I started reading when I was three and read everything, but I wanted to be an actress.
Kate Atkinson -
The little trouble in the world that is not due to love is due to friendship.
E. W. Howe -
I have rules for a lot of areas of my life. Love is not going to be one of them.
Taylor Swift -
You don't want to be first, right? You want to be second or third. You don't want to be - Facebook is not the first in social media. They're the third, right? Similarly, you know, if you look at Steve Jobs' history, he's never been first.
Malcolm Gladwell -
In Paris, everybody is in black! But you know, in Ukraine everyone wears bright colours.
Olga Kurylenko -
The positive heuristic of the programme saves the scientist from becoming confused by the ocean of anomalies.
Imre Lakatos
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I was on the plane with Dwayne You can call me Whitley, I go to Hillman
Nicki Minaj -
I look around my life and it's hard to believe that music has given me all that I have.
Jason Mraz -
One of the first coaches I worked with on the national team told me that I was too skinny, too puny, and had no natural acceleration. He said I'd be better off looking for another facet of sport to follow. That was a really, really bad moment. For a long time, I felt as if my dad was the only one who had faith in me.
Victoria Pendleton -
I feel good. I think everything went good.
Hal Sutton -
The core reason for it all was beauty. Walking was a divine delight. Everything was rewritten when he was up in the air. New things were possible with the human form. It went beyond equilibrium.He felt for a moment uncreated. Another kind of awake.
Colum McCann -
Some Pulitzer winners - novelists - have confided to me that getting the prize screwed them up. It messed with their heads. That hasn't been my experience.
Jeffrey Eugenides